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On Friday 23 February 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> Thread re-named to reflect topic-drift |
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> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:58:47AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote |
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> > On the one hand, /usr/share/doc has been almost 2G big (!) at |
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> > times, and otoh one can miss the really useful stuff.... |
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> I wouldn't mind terribly if it was actually usable. I'd like to be |
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> able to bookmark the docs in my browser. Here's a list of what's |
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> available to me, even with "-doc"... |
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> [m3000][waltdnes][~] find /usr/share/doc/ -name "index.html" |
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> /usr/share/doc/freeglut-2.4.0/doc/index.html |
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[snip] |
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> /usr/share/doc/giflib-4.1.4/html/doc/index.html |
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> Guess what happens to the bookmarks next time there's a minor |
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> version bump to any of those programs (e.g. when I update world)? I |
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> suppose I should try to slap together a script that's run after |
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> emerge. It would run the "find" command above, process the output, |
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> and create a file ~/.docs.html with an unnumbered list of links to |
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> the actual |
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> documentation. Sounds like a plan. |
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How about asking for a feature request in portage? |
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Something like a "docsymlink" FEATURE which will create an unversioned |
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symlink in /usr/share/doc in the install function. Something like this: |
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ln -sfn /usr/share/doc/<app>-1.2.3 /usr/share/doc/<app> |
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Put the symlink in your bookmarks, not the actual file. If portage does |
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it for you, then you don't have to do it manually with every update |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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